Given name · also Slavic
Svetislav
Svetislav is a masculine given name from Slavic. It is used in English and Serbo-Croatian.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Svetislav comes from Slavic, and ultimately from Slavic languages.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Svetislav’s family of names
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Svetislav
- Svetislav PešićSerbian basketball player and coachborn 1949
- Svetislav BasaraSerbian writerborn 1953
- Szvetiszláv Sasicsmodern pentathlete (1948–2025)
- Svetislav GlišovićSerbian footballer (1913–1988)
- Svetislav StančićCroatian pianist and musician scholar (1895-1970)
- Svetislav MilosavljevićSerbian military architect and public officer1882–1960
- Svetislav StefanovicSerbian physician and writer1874–1944
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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